Were you an Introvert before booze?
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In todays retrospective episode Vic and Hamish discover that they were both pretty confident before the booze came along.
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| 0:00.0 | It's my travelling diaries from 1999. |
| 0:10.2 | Oh my gosh, this is going to be good. |
| 0:12.0 | I had bought these out before. |
| 0:14.0 | My famous diary entry from when I was 11, which I read to Lucy, which was today I had |
| 0:19.2 | towed in the hole for lunch. |
| 0:22.8 | And then I saw a frog in the road after school, overall a rather amphibious day. Middle class, are you? Yeah. And money |
| 0:31.1 | put tea on the agar afterwards. Oh, this is like Adrian Mole. I'm enjoying this. So yeah, |
| 0:36.8 | I bought my diaries in again because I felt it was relevant to the topic. For an example, I'm going to read you the level of intellect of this diary. I'm going through this thick pages of stuff stuck in. It's like this, you know, it's a real crazy biblical thing, isn't it? It looks amazing. |
| 0:55.9 | I didn't realize that so many things stuck into it. |
| 0:58.5 | This is a sort of level of intellect we're talking about here. |
| 1:09.9 | Today I went for a walk around Melbourne, went swimming, bought a fake human shit, and booked myself on a tour, saw a kangaroo, and then went to a sweaty techno bar. That was a day in 1999. |
| 1:14.5 | Wow. So this is the bit I wanted to read you, which just reflects everything that we're going |
| 1:18.7 | to talk about here. It says, and this is the 15th of August 1999, I still have a lot of fear |
| 1:24.9 | just generally. I have a feeling that I'm going to die soon, just because |
| 1:28.8 | I do really stupid things when I'm drunk. And one day I think it's going to end in more than a lost |
| 1:33.5 | finger or a broken collarbone. I must be more careful. I didn't think it's a matter of luck either. |
| 1:39.6 | It's a matter of keeping myself safe and sober. So the word sober, I'm even using it there when I'm 23 years old. |
| 1:46.9 | I must respect my body. I could really hurt myself. I think it's all down to showing off. What a load of wank. |
| 1:54.1 | Gosh, that was written 23 years ago. You were having thoughts like this 23 years ago. |
| 1:58.4 | I will bring my diaries out often, Hamish, because |
| 2:01.3 | every page is a drinking story and every other page is a hungover story and my regrets, my shame, |
| 2:08.0 | every list in here. Here we go. I've got a list on the next page. I must stop being a fool. |
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